Thanks Lee
I will look into this.
The Motherboard is an Intel built on the 915 chipset.
The built in sound and video card don't work with Mandrake 10.1,
so I had to install cards that would work.
The sound card is not working either.
This is a very good learning experience for me and I hope to learn
more at todays InstallFest.
Thanks
Mike
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 08:03, Lee Einer wrote:
> Hi, Mike-
>
> You would want to start by checking the specs for your PC, or your
> motherboard if you built it yourself. FWIW, ACPI is anologous to
> Winmodems- it is dumber hardware run by smarter software. In the case of
> ACPI, though, it is basic system functions like power down, power
> management and cooling which are controlled by ACPI. Although there is
> an implementation of ACPI in Linux, computer manufacturers are largely
> doing a bad job of adhering to standards, so the ACPI does not always
> function.
>
> Mandrake 10.1 is supposed to automatically detect and configure ACPI,
> but in my very limited experience it does not bat a thousand with this.
> You can check to see if ACPI is installed but just not working by
> looking for a folder called ACPI in your PROC directory. If there is an
> ACPI folder and it is populated, you have ACPI running but it is not
> talking to your computer.
>
> You say that it worked once. Perhaps you could also go into the Mandrake
> Control Center under "services" and see if ACPI is set to start up at boot.
>
> Lee
>
> mike enriquez wrote:
>
> >This computer also has winxp on it and xp will shut it down.
> >I have run Knoppix CD on it and Knoppix will shut it down, but not
> >Mandrake 10.1?
> >How to check for ACPI under Linux is "Greek" to me.
> >Thanks
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 06:52, Lee Einer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Mike-
> >>
> >>Does your computer use ACPI or APM? The thing of stating "power down "
> >>but not actually powering down sounds like the behavior of a Linux
> >>system without functional ACPI installed on a computer which uses ACPI.
> >>
> >>Lee
> >>
> >>mike enriquez wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I boot into x-session.
> >>>I just clicked on turn off computer in verbose mode. All processes were
> >>>perform as [ok].
> >>>The very last line on the verbose mode is "Power Down".
> >>>I am assuming that I am to push the power button but this
> >>>does not make sense to manually have to hit the power button
> >>>in Linux. But what do I know?
> >>>I will try the install process you suggested.
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Mike
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:59, Donn Shumway wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Please describe what you mean by 'mandrake will not shutdown the
> >>>>computer'. Describe he shutdown process. Are you booting into an
> >>>>X-session or to the command line?
> >>>>
> >>>>2) Installing Firefox and Thunderbird is fairly easy. Start with
> >>>>Firefox. Download the latest tar file from the Firefox site (version
> >>>>1.01 just came out today and includes some significant bug fixes). The
> >>>>file is named firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz. If you are the only
> >>>>user, and you want to partake of the internal updater, you can install
> >>>>it into your Home directory (run the installer as your user, and
> >>>>choose your /home/user directory to install to). If multiple users
> >>>>will use it, install into /usr/local or /usr/share as the root user.
> >>>>
> >>>>copy the tar file to the root directory where you want to extract the
> >>>>Firefox installer.
> >>>>run the command 'tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz'
> >>>>This will create a directory called 'firefox-installer' and extract
> >>>>all the files into their proper directory structure. Once extracted,
> >>>>and assuming you want to install into your Home directory, you can run
> >>>>the firefox-installer with [assuming you extracted to /usr/local]:
> >>>>/usr/local/firefox-installer/firefox-installer
> >>>>
> >>>>Follow the prompts and enter the destination [ex. /home/foo/firefox]
> >>>>directory you want to install in, finish the install. When complete,
> >>>>run Firefox with the command:
> >>>>'/home/foo/firefox/firefox &' from a shell, or create a desktop Icon
> >>>>to run it from.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thunderbird is similar, but (if I remember correctly, does not contain
> >>>>an installer. You merely run it from the directory you extracted to.
> >>>>
> >>>>Let me know if you need more detail.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:28:59 -0700, mike enriquez
> >>>><thegeek@e-pebblecreek.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I have a dual boot with winxp and mandrake.
> >>>>>Issues:
> >>>>>1. Mandrake will not shut down the computer. It did it once then it
> >>>>>stopped shutting down.
> >>>>>2. I tried to install thunderbird and firefox and got nowhere.
> >>>>> I have downloaded both apps but I can't get pass the download to
> >>>>>install. I am doing something wrong but I can't figure it out.
> >>>>>3. I am taking a linux class at Gateway but the class is not at this
> >>>>>point of installing apps and drivers.
> >>>>>So I need a little kick start tomorrow.
> >>>>>Thanks
> >>>>>Mike
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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